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← Rundown2026 Kentucky Senate race

2026 election · U.S. Senate

2026 Kentucky Senate race

Incumbent: Mitch McConnell (Republican)

Mitch McConnellMitch McConnellRepublican
Amy McgrathAmy McgrathDEMOCRATIC PARTY
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Public polling

Every synced reading, newest first
PollsterDatesCandidate%
Public Policy Polling (D)2025-12-19Andy Barr (R)49
Public Policy Polling (D)2025-12-19Charles Booker (D)

Declared candidates

Source: FEC filings + public polling
  • Mitch McConnell
    Mitch McConnell

    Republican · Incumbent

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (15) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports pro-life legislation and defending the sanctity of life. [1][2][3]
    • Campaign Finance: Opposes stricter campaign finance regulations, leading efforts that resulted in the Supreme Court partially overturning the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold). [1]

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  • Defense: Supports Kentucky military communities and national security priorities. [1]
  • Economy/Inflation: Criticizes the Biden administration's economic policies, attributing rising inflation to its actions. [1][2]
  • Energy production: Supports all domestic energy sources including coal and opposes restrictions on production. [1][2][3]
  • Fentanyl & drug enforcement: Works to stop substance abuse and save lives amid the drug epidemic. [1]
  • Foreign Policy / National Security: Advocates continued strong U.S. global leadership, opposes isolationism, and supports robust military spending, aid to Ukraine, and support for Israel. [1][2][3]
  • Free speech & tech censorship: Opposes stricter campaign finance laws and regulations on political speech. [1][2]
  • Health care: Supports repealing and replacing Obamacare with step-by-step reforms. [1][2]
  • Immigration and Border Security: Criticizes the Biden administration's border policies as producing record illegal crossings and a humanitarian crisis, while supporting legal, orderly immigration. [1][2][3]
  • Parents' rights in education: Supports parents telling local schools what to teach and petitioning officials. [1]
  • School choice: Supports providing choices to students and parents and local decision-making in education. [1][2]
  • Taxation: Supports lower taxes, including passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and has tied support for other legislation to extending tax cuts. [1]
  • Taxes: Supported the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to cut taxes. [1]
  • Ukraine aid: Supports maintaining strong military and aid to allies including Ukraine. [1]
  • Amy Mcgrath
    Amy Mcgrath

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (18) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports reproductive freedom with decisions made by women and their doctors. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports secure borders and immigration law enforcement with constitutional accountability standards for agencies like ICE. [1][2]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports implementing term limits for members of Congress. [1]
    • Election integrity: mail ballots: Supports expanded mail-in voting and funding for the U.S. Postal Service. [1]
    • Energy and Climate: Supports investing in renewable energy and recognizes climate change as a national security issue. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports investing in renewable energy while maintaining Kentucky's role as an energy leader with coal and natural gas. [1][2]
    • Filibuster: Supports eliminating the filibuster to allow important legislation to receive a fair vote. [1]
    • Foreign Policy: Supports a two-state solution for Israel and negotiations to improve the JCPOA with Iran. [1]
    • Government Reform: Supports term limits, ending dark money in elections, and requiring release of tax returns by officials. [1]
    • Health care: Supports protecting and expanding the Affordable Care Act, restoring subsidies and Medicaid funding, and moving toward a public option. [1][2]
    • Healthcare: Supports protecting and expanding access to affordable health care including restoring the ACA. [1][2][3]
    • Immigration: Supports secure borders enforced humanely along with a path to citizenship for DREAMers. [1][2]
    • Israel: Supports Israel's security as essential to U.S. interests and a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [1]
    • Reproductive Rights: Supports reproductive freedom and opposes restrictions on abortion access. [1][2]
    • Tariffs: Opposes tariffs that raise costs for families, farmers, and small businesses. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Opposes broad tariffs, viewing them as hidden taxes that raise costs for families and businesses. [1][2]
    • Ukraine aid: Supports providing aid and weapons to Ukraine. [1]
    • Veterans: Supports expanding housing, mental health care, and benefits for veterans while ending veteran homelessness. [1]
  • Charles Booker
    Charles Booker

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (13) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports abortion as a woman's unrestricted right and codifying Roe v. Wade. [1][2][3]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports abolishing ICE and replacing it with a humane immigration system. [1][2]
    • Economy: Supports a Working People's Bill of Rights to reward work over wealth and protect workers. [1]
    • Energy: Supports the Green New Deal and clean renewable energy as an economic opportunity. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports the Green New Deal and transitioning to clean renewable energy. [1]
    • Gun policy: Supports addressing gun violence as a public health crisis. [1]
    • Health care: Supports Medicare for All. [1][2][3]
    • Healthcare: Supports Medicare for All. [1][2]
    • Immigration: Supports abolishing ICE and replacing it with a humane immigration system. [1][2]
    • Racial Justice: Supports ending generational poverty and uprooting structural racism including through reparations. [1]
    • Social Security & Medicare: Supports expanding Medicare and protecting Social Security benefits. [1]
    • Student loan forgiveness: Supports canceling student debt and making public colleges tuition-free. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports making the first $45,000 of income tax-free, a wealth tax, and equalizing capital gains and income tax rates. [1][2]
  • CT
    Christopher Todd Campbell

    OTHER

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (4) ▾
    • Health care: Supports Medicare for All to ensure quality medical care and reduce prices inflated by insurance companies and Big Pharma. [1]
    • Israel: Advocates diplomatic solutions to end the conflict in Gaza and ceasing funding that fuels the military-industrial complex. [1]
    • Labor unions: Pro-union, supporting skilled laborers and expanding good jobs through reshored industry. [1]
    • Ukraine aid: Opposes diverting funds to Ukraine aid at the expense of domestic supports for children and disabled people. [1]
  • DR
    Dale Romans

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (6) ▾
    • Education: Supports investing in public education and job training. [1]
    • Health care: Supports restoring Affordable Care Act subsidies and repealing Medicaid cuts from the Big Beautiful Bill. [1][2]
    • Immigration: Supports reforming immigration to provide legal status to working immigrants but not a path to citizenship. [1][2][3]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports protecting Kentucky industries from harmful overregulation. [1]
    • Taxes: Opposes tax breaks for the super-rich and big corporations. [1]
    • Trade: Opposes harmful tariffs and trade policies affecting Kentucky industries. [1][2][3]
  • DC
    Daniel Cameron

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (19) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports the Human Life Protection Act and restrictions on abortion with limited exceptions. [1][2]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports securing the southern border, building the wall, and deporting criminal illegal immigrants. [1][2][3]
    • Crime & policing: Supports law and order and backing law enforcement. [1][2]
    • DEI programs: Supports ending DEI programs in schools, workplaces, and institutions. [1][2][3]
    • Economy: Supports tax cuts, fiscal accountability, and stronger congressional oversight of federal spending to reduce waste. [1]
    • Education: Supports optional tutoring programs in math and reading for students falling behind grade level. [1]
    • Election integrity: Supports securing elections. [1]
    • Energy: Supports investment in traditional energy sources and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports traditional energy sources like coal, oil, and gas while opposing the green agenda and EV mandates. [1][2][3]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports stronger congressional oversight of federal spending to reduce waste. [1]
    • Fentanyl & drug enforcement: Supports efforts to secure the southern border to stop the flow of fentanyl into Kentucky. [1]
    • Gun policy: Supports protecting Second Amendment rights and concealed carry reciprocity. [1][2][3]
    • Health care: Supports requiring able-bodied adults to work in exchange for Medicaid coverage. [1]
    • Immigration: Supports increased border security, ICE funding, and enforcement of immigration laws. [1][2]
    • Medical gender transition for minors: Opposes life-altering gender transition surgeries for children. [1]
    • Public Safety: Supports providing law enforcement with resources and manpower for crime prevention. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports reducing government red tape to spur economic growth. [1]
    • Religious liberty: Supports protecting constitutional rights to worship and religious freedom. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports tax cuts and eliminating Kentucky's state income tax. [1][2][3]
  • GA
    Garland Andy Barr

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (12) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports pro-life policies including bans on taxpayer funding of abortion and protections for infants born alive. [1]
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Supports building the wall, securing the border, and deporting criminal illegal immigrants. [1][2][3]
    • DEI programs: Opposes DEI initiatives. [1]
    • Education: Supports education decisions made by parents and teachers rather than federal bureaucrats. [1]
    • Election integrity: voter ID: Supports requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship for federal elections. [1]
    • Energy production: Supports fossil fuel development including coal and rolling back regulations to achieve energy dominance. [1][2]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports balanced budget amendment and legislation to achieve deficit reduction. [1][2]
    • Gun policy: Supports the Second Amendment. [1]
    • Healthcare: Supports expanding access to affordable health care without bureaucrats between patients and doctors. [1]
    • Medical gender transition for minors: Opposes federal funding for gender reassignment surgeries and treatments on minors. [1][2]
    • Taxes: Supports extending the Trump tax cuts. [1]
    • Women's sports: Supports legislation prohibiting biological males from competing in women's sports. [1][2]
  • JW
    Joel Willett

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
  • LF
    Logan Forsythe

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (7) ▾
    • Congressional term limits: Supports term limits for elected officials. [1]
    • Crime & policing: Opposes deploying National Guard troops to states against governors’ wishes without clear need. [1]
    • Education: Prioritizes education access, drawing from his experience as a first-generation college student. [1][2]
    • Federal spending & debt: Opposes recent legislation that reduced funding for safety-net programs like Medicaid. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports protecting Medicaid and food assistance programs that helped his family escape poverty. [1][2][3]
    • Taxes: Supports raising the minimum wage to a living wage standard. [1]
    • Workers' rights: Plans to specialize in workers’ rights policy as an attorney focused on that area. [1][2]
  • MF
    Michael Faris

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (9) ▾
    • Abortion: Supports defending the unborn without compromise. [1]
    • Congressional term limits: Supports term limits on Congress. [1]
    • Election integrity: voter ID: Supports election integrity measures including voter ID and cleaning voter rolls. [1][2]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports cutting wasteful federal spending and abuse in government. [1][2][3]
    • Foreign aid: Supports cutting foreign aid spending. [1][2]
    • Health care: Supports lowering healthcare costs, protecting Medicare and strengthening rural hospitals. [1][2]
    • Parents' rights in education: Supports parents having the right to choose how children are educated. [1]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports reducing regulatory burdens on small businesses. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports making tax relief permanent for working Americans. [1][2]
  • MJ
    Michael James Faris

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (6) ▾
    • Congressional term limits: Supports constitutional amendment limiting members of Congress to three House terms and two Senate terms. [1]
    • Election integrity: Supports election integrity. [1]
    • Federal spending & debt: Supports cutting wasteful federal spending and foreign aid. [1][2][3]
    • Health care: Supports lowering healthcare costs, protecting Medicare, strengthening rural hospitals and fixing the health care system. [1][2]
    • Regulation & permitting: Supports reducing regulatory burdens on small businesses. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports making tax relief permanent for working Americans. [1]
  • NM
    Nate Morris

    REPUBLICAN PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (8) ▾
    • Border enforcement & immigration law: Opposes all forms of amnesty, wants to end birthright citizenship, supports mass deportation, and a temporary pause on new immigration. [1]
    • Election integrity: voter ID: Supports cutting federal funding to states and localities that refuse to implement voter ID laws. [1][2]
    • Gun policy: Opposes gun control, seeks to repeal the 2022 Biden-McConnell gun control bill, and protect gun sales from credit card bans. [1]
    • Health care: Backs Trump and RFK’s Make America Healthy Again agenda to remove toxic chemicals and preservatives from food and water. [1][2]
    • Israel: Supports strong U.S.-Israel alliance and Trump’s pro-Israel policies as an evangelical Christian. [1]
    • Medical gender transition for minors: Supports banning doctors from prescribing dangerous hormone therapy to children. [1]
    • Taxes: Supports President Trump’s working-class tax cuts and tariff policies to create American jobs. [1]
    • Ukraine aid: Opposes U.S. financial support for Ukraine and foreign intervention, prioritizing America First policies. [1]
  • Pamela Stevenson
    Pamela Stevenson

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY

    FEC filing ↗
    Stated positions (3) ▾
    • DEI programs: Opposes legislation eliminating DEI programs at higher education institutions. [1]
    • Filibuster: Supports reforming the filibuster to require a talking filibuster and reduce procedural gridlock. [1]
    • Health care: Supports universal healthcare with a strong public option alongside private plans. [1]
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